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It was more in our spirit to let things come to rights by the plain dictates of common sense than by the practice of any artifices.
Thomas Jefferson
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
George Bernard Shaw
Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them.
The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.
Thucydides
A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage.
Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.
I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.
Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.
If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else
Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before the age of 18
Albert Einstein
I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.
Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.
